At least now, we can be assured that it will continue to fly, and represent the ideals we stand for.
No hammer and sickle in our future, at least for now.
Following ‘Da Flow
First – congrats to Trump! He fought hard for the Win and deserved it.
Following ‘Da Flow led humble me to be the first commenter here (if I recall correctly) to move from the polls to the Betting Odds, and was way ahead of Power Line’s John Hinderaker.
When the Betting Odds became too wide between Trump & Harris I looked for another ‘Indicator’ – Independents Flowed right up to me.
By “Following ‘Da Flow” – for me, it’s one of the ways to communicate with Self. From this:
‘Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree,
intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body.
The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life,
while the latter looks on in detachment’. The Mundaka Upanishad
Sometimes the ‘Da Flow needs to be like the Futaleufú River in Chile for me to know to follow it. Other times it can be as slow as a gentle forest stream. Other times I catch the wrong flow whilst busily devouring the ‘sweet and sour fruits’ about me.
Missed ‘Indicators’: 1) Black male voters. 2) Hispanic voters. First time as an amateur forecaster, so I missed the small ‘Indicators’ that Flowed across my Path—several times or more. Small can add up to Large enough for a Win.
Trump best not waste his second chance…
I took comfort in these words, part of a comment at Ace on election eve, “millions are praying”.
“God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said referring to the assassination attempts on his life.
Sharon+W, I and my family certainly prayed for your country, and ours.
It’s an historic day for many reasons. We have the second person to win the presidency non-consecutively (the other being Glover Cleveland). That’s a feet that was widely believed to be near impossible in modern times for various reasons.
We now have a winner who was ceaselessly prosecuted unjustly for a decade via lawfare, who was the subject of various ‘ops’ and general skulduggery by our Government’s intelligence apparatus, an extremely hostile press who shamelessly lied and misrepresented him and his supporters at every turn, an opponent outraised him by an almost 3 to 1 margin, and (last but certainly not least) survived 2 assasination attempts.
In short, the forces arrayed against him have pretty much thrown everything at him that they could, used every available weapon that they had. And yet despite all that, he has still prevailed.
Beyond everything else, I do wonder if there will be any real reflection by the mainstream media. Will there be any honest attempt to evaluate their failings and irrational demonizations? Will they see the problem with being blatant propagandists in an age of post information scarcity? My initial guess is probably not, but the alternative for them is irrelevance and ultimately unemployment, so perhaps they have a surivival instinct still that will force them to face some hard realities.
Are you ready for a guilty pleasure?
Instapundit linked to this fake video of Biden congratulating Trump on the win, and I couldn’t resist a look. It’s funny and crude, so if you laugh, don’t blame me.
Looks like your forecast of a “Blue Wave” was waaaaay off.
I did great on my forecast, and will be back in 4-years for more. Use mine next time, and you won’t even have to credit humble me…
Laugh of the morning was an essay by Michael Hirsh in Foreign Policy magazine (foreignpolicy.com)
Why Harris Lost
A sample, Kamala was done wrong by Sunny Hostin of “The View” who asked Kamala an easy question.
Oh, the humanity!
I got on their spam list and generally delete on receipt but this one showed the gulf separating the elites and reality.
Well, it looks like former President Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral college decisively, and by large enough margins that it will be very hard for the Democrats to mount all sorts of legal challenges to those numbers and results in each state, or to the Electoral college totals.
Hopefully, the sudden and mysterious appearance, from out of nowhere, of hundreds of thousands of new votes, shifting the victory to Harris, in state after state, is not likely to work this time.
However, I fully expect that the Democrats will put every road block they can in the way of, first, Trump peacefully ascending to the presidency and, then, once in office, placing every other roadblock they can to thwart his attempts to govern and implement his Agenda.
The first thing which comes to mind is the fact that, as the Vice President, Kamala Harris has the Constitutional function and duty of certifying the election results.
Despite the huge controversy the Democrats made of their version of the events surrounding the certification of the election last time, on “January 6th,” and the need for the Constitutional process to proceed along it’s normal course, I can certainly see Harris refusing to certify.
There are many important and decisive actions which President Trump needs to take on his first few days in office, but perhaps none is more important or foundational than quickly getting legislation passed by Congress and signed which will completely reform the Civil Service, one of the chief sources of resistance to Trump’s Agenda last time, and –if he lets them keep their power to do so–sure to play the same role this time.
P.S.–That accomplished, it’s time for a thorough house cleaning of the Executive Branch, to include, among other major targets, the DOJ, the FBI, State Department, the Military, and Intelligence Agencies, with other Executive Agencies and Departments not far behind.
Where will Trump get the many fearless gun-slinging sheriffs he needs to send out to clean up each partisan and corrupt organization?
Next, will it be worth the expenditure of political capital to try to totally disband whole Departments or Agencies like Education, Environmental Protection, ATF, or the BLM?
This all assumes that Republicans will retain control of the House.
Commentators have been saying that the Republican party is now Trump’s party.
But, is that so?
If and when Trump embarks on a revolutionary Agenda to drastically reform the existing “System,” will Congressional Republicans give him the votes to do so?
How much drastic change is realistically possible?
Why did the counting stop?
Trump won and I’m alive. A good day. Gratitude.
Suggested agenda for Trump:
— Build the wall, deport them all
— Drill, baby drill
— Pardon Jan 6 protestors
— Purge DOJ/FBI, Dept. of State, CIA.
— Eliminate Dept. of Education and Homeland Security; FBI and CIA.
— Cancel/rescind Biden’s executive orders
— Purge the military leadership; reform the military
That’s just for starters. Any other suggestions?
Decent Joe was right: dey shoulda stuck wid ‘im. Not replaced ‘im wid da Cackler. After all, HE was da guy dat brought ‘em to da dance.
Where will Trump get the many fearless gun-slinging sheriffs he needs to send out to clean up each partisan and corrupt organization?
Ahem. I’m available and keen to serve.
His first agenda item should be to establish friend and foe in each agency. Get it on paper!
Second: he needs to stay safe!
He needs to hear from the women of great wealth–get an agreement on what two things they consider important for the next four years. Put their names out there connected to their invisible “actions”.
Assure there is not another pile up of shipping containers on our coasts.
Use some of the “qualities” that the progressives claim for themselves:
1. “we include everyone’s opinion”. He needs to do that before– not after a
decision–or at least look like he is doing it. He needs to use Congress to come up with solutions that
are reasonable–not to “pretty places”, but rather solutions to how each
state can handle their problem in a non draconian way.
2. Mostly what he needs to do is bring in strong systems thinkers who can
look at a problem and design doable solutions.
Not to be too much of a Debbie Downer, but there’s still the scumbag judge in NYC and the sentencing of Trump coming up. Will he actually throw Trump in jail?
The political situation in Washington has aptly been described as a “Swamp.”
Imagine a swamp, full of traps for the unwary—false trails, bogs and quicksand, hostile animals and insects, branches and vines to trip over.
That’s what any Trump appointees will be thrust into.
If it turns out I was wrong about “too big to rig”, I’m relieve, but a lot can happen between now and January.
For now it looks as though we have earned a breathing space. We cannot just use it to breathe. If we go back to sleep they’ll just take over again in 2028.
A lot of the Democrat NGOs who help the Dems win elections have been funded by bills passed by the Republican-controlled House, which has been following the spending parameters agreed to with Biden back in the McCarthy Speakership since May of this year and will spend us into a fake debt-ceiling fight by the middle of next year. We need to hold our GOP accountable to get its snouts out of the trough and start fixing things that are broken. New Senate Majority leader is a step in the right direction, provided that McConnell is not pulling the strings.
@physicsguy:Will he actually throw Trump in jail?
I hope the judge is stupid enough to do that.
I hope that for the next four years Trump is strapped to a gurney and wheeled into negotiations with foreign leaders in an orange jumpsuit, shackles, and a Hannibal Lecter mask, and kept in a glass cage for everyone else’s safety. I hope he gets some face tattoos while he’s in there.
I suspect the “trade deals” will get quite a bit more favorable, Mexico will start building a wall on its own side of the border, and Putin might cede some territory back to Ukraine or maybe even Finland.
Dear Neo: Is there any way the Jewish community can try to get this guy to tamp down some of the rhetoric he is already spitting out? This guy is a beloved leader of the extreme left an economist from Berkeley. He has tremendous influence among the “enlightened” and I fear his rhetoric is too too evil. I don’t ask that he be silenced–just that he should not TRY to incite riots.
I think the reason Harris is waiting to concede today is to give her minions in Philly, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Phoenix/Tuscon, Milwaukee, and Las Vegas time to test dumping in some ballots out of nowhere. Trump is only ahead in Wisconsin by 30K votes, and counting is still going on in Nevada and Arizona. If they can get Trump’s margins down in Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin to 20K by this evening, I don’t think she will concede.
If they can get the margins down to 20K they can start filing more court cases asking for late ballots to count in all of the states.
“I did great on my forecast”
Yes, Karmi was predicting a big Trump-led Republican sweep all along …
The Trump administration has an opportunity to discover the truth that has been hidden, and the lies that were propagated, by the Democrats for the last sixteen years . . . assuming that the Democrats don’t destroy all the evidence.
Likening your political opponent to one of the worst mass murderers in history [without evidence], and calling more than half of the voters “garbage” (and then lying about it) were not winning strategies, thank God!
The NYT front page is hilarious, though also kind of pathetic:
TRUMP STORMS BACK
Stunning Return to Power after Dark and Defiant Campaign
Well he is Hitler, so I suppose it’s appropriate.
Sharon+W, that CNN segment was fascinating, not for what he said. There’s nothing new to any person outside the bubble. But the looks on the faces of the other panelists – they look like they can’t believe their ears, like the things he was saying just don’t compute.
Thanks for that.
VDH wrote a piece a couple of days ago, same theme. https://victorhanson.com/from-clingers-to-garbage-why-the-16-years-of-vilification/
Failed presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and departing President Joe Biden are both ready to personally call President-Elect Donald Trump on Wednesday and concede defeat.
Michigan was just called for President Trump. Given that Pennsylvania went to Trump, it’s likely Arizona and Nevada will also end up voting for Trump- giving him over 305 electoral votes. Winning the popular vote– that’s a mandate.
Trump made it perfectly clear on these issues:
He would settle the war between Ukraine and Russia.
He would impose tariffs, possibly across the board, but certainly in cases where the other country was obstructing trade.
He would increase energy production– oil and gas.
He would seal the border and begin deportation of illegal migrants.
He would incentivize manufacturing to relocate/locate in the US with 15% corporate tax.
He would reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
Knowing that, a majority of Americans voted for President Trump. Hopefully Congress will remember that when the President takes the office on Jan. 20
It appears the “protect the vote” plan led by Lara Trump has worked.
That the election was as close as it was, is a travesty. The least qualified candidate in modern times in Kamala. We dodged a bullet. And the hand of Providence can be seen in it all.
But this is only the beginning. Trump will be met with tenacious opposition at every turn. He will meet the challenges and do the work. On that we can rely. But we must back him up in any way possible. Write your Senators and representative, write letters to the editors, comment on blogs, volunteer to work for your local Republican party, etc. Defending democracy is hard work, but necessary. Let us all keep going with strong hearts filled with thanks for this amazing victory.
“Dear Neo: Is there any way the Jewish community can try to get this guy to tamp down some of the rhetoric he is already spitting out?”
Anne: I’m not aware that he’s especially beloved or influential, but maybe in his own circles he is. I doubt he pays any attention to the Jewish community. And incidentally he’s not an economist by training, he just pretends to be. He got an MA at Oxford in “Politics, Philosophy, and Economics” which in the UK is just a credential to go into government. Then he got a JD.
Paolo–I still remember how you and your parish prayed for my husband in April 2020. It is not an exaggeration to say that thousands (strangers to us) were praying for him. I still regularly pray, “Lord please bless every single person who had said even one prayer for us in our time of distress.” You are regularly remembered in our prayers.
J.J.
It appears the “protect the vote” plan led by Lara Trump has worked.
Yes indeed – a most *EXCELLENT* Job by Lara Trump!!!
Trump needs to get his cabinet set up asap, establish the committee that Musk and others will work on to reduce duplication and waste, get the EOs prepped for reversing the Biden’s EOs.
Get with the House and Senate leaders to get them to start the review of what regs, laws, etc that they can reverse, especially the ones that the Ds will try to push through before January.
BTW, the cabinet heads must agree that they will cooperate with Musk to reduce regs, wasteful and duplicate programs, and realign the departments with the original purpose.
With the illegal aliens in the country, start with the criminals and either deport them or jail them for a long time. That way, they won’t try to return to the US. I’m sure there are some unused federal buildings that can be converted to prisons. Perhaps take over Rikers since it is already a hell hole of a place. Jail them all in that sanctuary city.
The election went as well as I could reasonably hope. I agree that it is a great boon that Trump has also won the popular vote.
Thank God.
It does seem a classic story from the Bible or Roman times.
It ain’t over till the Cackler conceeds?
Will we have the Pink Hat March on the Mall, Part Duex in February 2025?
Kamala Harris called Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon and formally conceded the election to him.
‘She discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being a president for all Americans,’ a senior Harris aide said.
Harris will deliver remarks at Howard University later today. Trump is spending the day at his home at Mar-a-Lago.
Thanks Jimmy: I am grateful for your insight and I hope you understand my very deep concern about this tactic coming on the morning after. We should ask whoever we think can help to help tap down the hate.
One online voice has compiled a list of mostly Hollywood celebrities who’ve declared they will leave the US: “1. Alec Baldwin 2. Whoopi Goldberg 3. John Legend 4. Chrissy Teigen 5. Rob Reiner 6. Barbara Streisand 7. Cher 8. Nancy Pelosi 9. Hillary Clinton 10. Megan Rapinoe 11. Tom Hanks 12. Amy Schumer 13. AOC 14. Lady Gaga 15. Taylor Swift 16. Bill Gates 17. Jane Fonda 18. Madonna 19. Mark Ruffalo 20. Kim Kardashian 21. Bruce Springsteen 22. George Clooney 23. Hunter Biden 24. Oprah 25. Robert De Niro 26. Samuel L Jackson 27. Miley Cyrus 28. Travis Kelce 29. Bobbi Althoff 30. Rashida Talib 31. Stormy Daniels 32. Dr. Anthony Fauci 33. George Soros 34. Diddy 35. Eminem 36. Ellen DeGeneres 37. Sean Penn 38. Sharon Stone 39. Ashley Judd 40. Tommy Lee 41. Bryan Cranston 42. Billie Joe Armstrong
Click through his or her link there to X.com for over a year and a half of thoughtful and proactive postings that may also make you laugh!
Anne, I agree it’s disgraceful, but not surprising. Unfortunately there will be riots and violence, regardless of what the guy with the Napoleon complex says. But maybe less given the gains in Trump’s support among blacks and Hispanics.
Even worse is what Jamie Raskin has been saying. I really hope the Rs keep the House to help stifle all of this.
Liz @ 1:29pm,
Well stated. And don’t forget Ramaswamy. He can be a big help with a plan for reducing spending and waste.
Vance can also be much more than a titular czar with his many talents. Maybe he focuses on fentanyl and addiction?
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is positioned to have sweeping powers in the second Trump administration as a deputy tasked with restructuring government operations using his aggressive approach to business.
Some predict the relationship will end in acrimony given the strong personalities involved…
“America is a nation of builders. Soon, you will be free to build,” Musk posted on X.
Second chance President Trump – Can the Tiger change its Stripes?
Can a troll stop ….
Daily Mail is sweeping the field with reaction videos.
There is a lot of duplication in the “below the fold” parts, but it’s useful for people who aren’t political junkies. The writers still slip in some subtle-to-obvious anti-Trump spin, but are often called on it in the comments.
Not that anyone cares about Dubya’s endorsement or vote, but I point out a paragraph that represents the process by which I realized a great realignment was in process (h/t John Solomon’s post on the D-exit linked yesterday by Barry).
That any Republican could call what Biden Inc. did to our country over the last 4 years a “service,” whether he meant it or was just being polite, is a travesty of misjudgment and arrogance bordering on farce.
My process of enlightenment:
First the Republican Never-Trumpers declared they couldn’t support Trump because of his crudity and lack of moral character, and would not endorse or vote for him; and that’s okay, they had some points in 2016.
Then some of them said that they were going to vote for Hillary Clinton; and that’s okay, it’s their right, if they thought she would implement policies they could agree with (although I thought they should be honest and just change parties).
Then some of them praised Hillary as being a morally better person than Trump; and that’s ridiculous.
So then Trump didn’t do any of the evil fascist things they predicted, and actually accomplished a lot of conservative priorities that the Republicans had long campaigned on.
BUT (given that I agree with all of Neo’s assessments of Joe Biden over the years)
The same people followed the same process in 2020, and even added to their numbers, some even characterizing Biden as a good man, a fine person, an astute statesmen, etc. (ignoring Hunter’s problems as “irrelevant” I suppose).
And that’s bizarre — I began to wonder if they had lived though an alternate time line or in an alternate DC somehow.
THEN in 2024 the defections of high-profile Republicans to the Democrats in support of Kamala Harris began, and they not only praised her character but her policies (aka Biden 2.0, or Obama 4.0 take your pick).
In his essay, The Guardians Of The Galaxy leading man wrote: ‘It’s ok to take a moment to lick your wounds when you lose. Heck, go ahead and cry in the mirror.
‘But if we become too paralyzed by defeat or too pompous in victory, allegiance to our “team” can blind us to the fact that we are fellow countrymen.’
…
In Pratt’s piece, the Moneyball actor also gave his advice on how to be a good citizen no matter the election result.
‘How do we become a nation of honorable winners and graceful losers? It starts with remembering no matter who wins or loses, there are still going to be people who need help in this country,’ he wrote, adding that you need to ‘find them’ and ‘be of service.’
Pratt urged both parties to ‘accept the results and focus instead on showing up for each other.’
On the other hand, Andy is wrong about Harris (that’s his privilege), but relatively gracious in defeat — so not typical of the Democrats we are seeing more of in the news.
Despite voting for Harris and campaigning for her on social media, Cohen, 56, reacted to her loss by sharing a message of hope and unity with his 5.5 million followers.
In a video shared to Instagram, Cohen can be seen asking five-year-old son Ben for his ‘take on the election.’
The youngster responded, ‘Donald [Trump] winned.’
‘He did,’ Cohen said with a weary smile. ‘And what do you think? Well, we love our country, don’t we?’
He continued, ‘We love our country, yes we do. We will persist, we will move forward.’
Sharing the video to Instagram, Cohen captioned it, ‘God bless America.’
The unifying statement delighted many of the Bravo star’s followers, who took to the comments to praise him for not being divisive.
@ physicsguy > “Not to be too much of a Debbie Downer, but there’s still the scumbag judge in NYC and the sentencing of Trump coming up. Will he actually throw Trump in jail?”
Special Counsel Jack Smith is in talks with the Justice Department to end the January 6 and classified documents prosecutions, NBC News reported.
The move would confirm the DOJ is sticking with the precedent that no sitting president can be prosecuted.
It’s an enormous blow for Smith who ramped up the cases in the final months of the campaigns and has spent almost three years and more than $35million in taxpayer funds trying to bring the 78-year-old to trial.
Trump still faces sentencing in the New York hush money trial next month and the election interference case in Georgia headed by District Attorney Fani Wills has been beset by a slew of problems.
…
Since Trump will only be sworn into office on Inauguration Day on January 20, prosecutors still technically have weeks to prosecute him if they wanted to.
But just like earlier efforts, they would be vulnerable to challenges and appeal.
…
‘The ball’s in DOJ’s court. I think in the next 48 to 72 hours we’re going to hear something,’ said a source close to Trump’s defense. ‘The DOJ does not want to be caught up in a situation where they’re litigating something that is pointless.’
Smith had also charged Trump with unlawfully holding onto classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after his first term ended in 2021 and obstructing efforts by the U.S. government to retrieve the records.
Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, dismissed all charges in July after finding that Smith was improperly appointed to the role and did not have the authority to bring the case.
The ruling brought an abrupt halt to the case, ensuring there would be no trial before the presidential election.
Smith’s team is appealing the ruling, but Trump’s vow to fire Smith ‘within two seconds’ upon taking office likely signals the end of the case.
However, if I were writing the movie script, I would follow the scenario from
Niketas Choniates on November 6, 2024 at 12:04 pm >
“I hope the judge is stupid enough to do that.
I hope that for the next four years Trump is strapped to a gurney and wheeled into negotiations with foreign leaders in an orange jumpsuit, shackles, and a Hannibal Lecter mask, and kept in a glass cage for everyone else’s safety. I hope he gets some face tattoos while he’s in there.”
Some great theater in that vision!
AesopFan:
It has been an interesting sorting-out process, balanced by people like Gabbard and RFK and Musk and Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly crossing over to the Trump side.
In re the Democrats’ harping on the comedian who called Puerto Rico a “great floating island of garbage” — which is an apt description of the pollution covering its beaches, according to one PR on the internet, the Outrage Club in DC ought to talk more to the people who live there.
Just think of the righteous outrage the media et al. would have spewed had that comedian (or Trump) said something along the lines of PR having beautiful, pristine beaches filled with beautiful women…
Why were so many polls so wrong?
Aside from being tweaked to support Harris, that is.
The Daily Mail reveals their secret, and it looks persuasive to me.
Lots of moving parts, so RTWT, but some of it mirrors the missed indicators that Karmi noted: 1) Black male voters. 2) Hispanic voters.
And a lot more than those.
I think they took the Salena Zito Maxim literally AND seriously.
Arizona may have hoped to be some kind of tie-breaking king/queen-maker, but now they just look incompetent.
I have not yet seen any news of large-scale riots by the Left, maybe a couple of small Antifa actions.
IMO, the scale of Trump’s victory probably led the Junta to call off any planned violence, which would be in service to a “Trump lost the popular vote and he cheated” narrative that is simply unsustainable now.
They could get away with calling close votes illegitimate, as they certainly planned to do, but now they would be clearly declaring themselves Election Deniers.
And they can’t even claim Trump cheated without admitting that the “fair and secure” systems they touted four years ago really aren’t.
“If It’s Not Close They Can’t Cheat (enough)” really is true!
Another one of the first actions by President Trump might be to pardon all of those many people reportedly wrongfully persecuted, prosecuted, and jailed–apparently some of them reportedly still in jail–for their involvement in, or apparently just walking by, the action on Capitol Hill on “January 6th.”
Then, everyone involved in any aspect of their wrongful prosecution, and jailing–including any judicial or jail personnel who might have created the reportedly horrible conditions in which people were jailed and mistreated–should themselves be investigated, indicted, and prosecuted.
This brings up the question of just how much attention and effort should be devoted to investigating and prosecuting the many officials/people involved in all sorts of misdeeds during the Biden Administration and, at what point would such efforts be taking too much time and attention away from all of the other things which a Trump Administration very apparently urgently needs to accomplish?
I have not yet seen any news of large-scale riots by the Left, maybe a couple of small Antifa actions.
Let’s see what happens on January 20th. Though as mentioned, with Trump gaining among blacks and Hispanics, and winning the popular vote by a sizable amount, I suspect it won’t reach the height (or I should say, depth) of 2017.
RE: Illegal immigration
I’m all in favor of reasonable amounts of legal immigration which our country can easily assimilate, especially by immigrants who have education, skills, knowledge, and talents which will be of benefit to our country.
Criminal illegal aliens are the obvious first group of illegals which should be identified, rounded up, and deported.
But, I’m also hoping that a lot of other non-criminal “illegals,” in view of President elect Trump’s promised massive deportation effort, will decide to “self-deport” ; packing up their bags, and heading back across our borders, to find some other place to live.
I have not yet seen any news of large-scale riots by the Left…
AesopFan:
Perhaps wishful thinking, but I don’t think there will be.
The big post-2016 woke upsurge is played out, the Dems couldn’t do better than Biden, then swapped him out for the feckless Harris, who crashed, burned and even lost the popular vote to the Anti-Christ Trump, who chewed up the lawfare and hysterical lies and won, with even more blacks and hispanics than ever before.
I think the left is confused and regrouping. Which isn’t to say they will triangulate back to the center. But the American majority has rejected Harris and all her Hollywood surrogates. Democracy has spoken.
For now they can no longer bank on being on the Right Side of History. Woke is broke as an old acid-rock poster. (Unless it’s collectible.)
P.S.–Who knows what kinds of very attractive benefits–free transportation, food, clothing, medical care, education, and housing, living allowances, and other free stuff–the Biden Administration, various NGOs, and Church groups have, de facto, provided to illegals.
The Trump Administration should make every effort to eliminate these benefits, which make it attractive for illegals to cross into our country and try to reside here.
I wonder if Barack and Michelle aren’t kicking themselves.
If they had forced out Biden before the primaries then entered Michelle O, I still say MO would have won this year.
A plank of wood like Kamala got 48% against Trump.
Yes, yes, I know Michelle O didn’t want to run. It would have been a drag. But if she really cared about America or the Revolution or whatever, wouldn’t it have been worth it?
What is Barack’s legacy now?
My wife just came home from the store all freaked out because she encountered a large Mountain Lion on the road to our house.
And ….. Arizona gives up and goes Red as of Nov 6, 2024, 9:29 PM
Total votes tabulated at DDHQ 141,175,272
Harris 226 EV 68,269,544 votes 48%
Trump 312 EV 72,905,728 votes 52%
My wife just came home from the store all freaked out because she encountered a large Mountain Lion on the road to our house.
Chases Eagles:
Totally cool.
I mean that in the best possible way.
@ huxley > “What is Barack’s legacy now?”
Same as it would have been if Michelle had won: death, destruction, poverty, censorship, curtailing constitutional rights, enabling Iran, destroying Israel.
She would have done the same thing for 4 years as either Biden or Harris, and the rsurge from the Right would just be delayed, and otherwise the same.
The Obamas have no cachet with younger voters, and their brand of nagging parental bullying wouldn’t get any better.
(and yes, Kamala revealing the Democrats’ “floor” is frightening).
Niketas Choniates on November 6, 2024 at 12:01 pm said:
“If it turns out I was wrong about “too big to rig”, I’m relieved, but a lot can happen between now and January.”
You are not really beating yourself up over that stance, but you provided a good balancing service for us.
Given how many of us felt (or thought we “knew”) about probable fraud in 2020, your continued cautionary reminders about a possible repeat for 2024 were a good splash of cold water in the face, now and then. We had no grounds for feeling cocky up until just the last few weeks, when Cackler was clearly not cutting it. Dispite her failings, the issues of abortion and of “first women president” might just have been enough to pull her across the finish line.
“Might have”; but fortunately not enough.
It will be a glorious day when the whole odious Biden Administration crew gets stripped of their positions, and some perhaps prosecuted.
Re: What is Barack’s legacy now?
AesopFan:
I was thinking four more years of an Obama administration would do a great deal more structural damage — eliminating the Electoral College and filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, adding more states, awarding citizenship to illegals, more lawfare against Republicans — thereby cementing the Democrat Party’s power for decades more.
Elon Musk claimed if Trump lost this year, it would be the last free election in the US. It seems possible.
Trump’s win means we’re going to rollback that agenda.
@IrishOtter (11/6, 1121)– Additional changes: Eliminate birthright citizenship by restricting it to persons born of parents legally residing in the US at the time of birth, that being US citizens (natural born, naturalized, or “green card). No more “anchor babies”.
[Apologies if this was mentioned upstream, there were 70 comments ahead of me.]
I have neve really understood why we use the general term “natural born” when we really mean “native born”. But this might be not quite correct for those few people born of US citizen parents while the mother is not resident in the US, e.g., John McCain in Panama, etc.
Thanks, Neo, for all your hours of work. The Flag was great.
And the noises, kids, horses (coconuts?), motorcycles.
Long may she wave.
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At least now, we can be assured that it will continue to fly, and represent the ideals we stand for.
No hammer and sickle in our future, at least for now.
Following ‘Da Flow
First – congrats to Trump! He fought hard for the Win and deserved it.
Following ‘Da Flow led humble me to be the first commenter here (if I recall correctly) to move from the polls to the Betting Odds, and was way ahead of Power Line’s John Hinderaker.
When the Betting Odds became too wide between Trump & Harris I looked for another ‘Indicator’ – Independents Flowed right up to me.
Following ‘Da Flow then led me to another ‘Indicator’ – Harris has a ‘serious woman problem’.
By “Following ‘Da Flow” – for me, it’s one of the ways to communicate with Self. From this:
Sometimes the ‘Da Flow needs to be like the Futaleufú River in Chile for me to know to follow it. Other times it can be as slow as a gentle forest stream. Other times I catch the wrong flow whilst busily devouring the ‘sweet and sour fruits’ about me.
Missed ‘Indicators’: 1) Black male voters. 2) Hispanic voters. First time as an amateur forecaster, so I missed the small ‘Indicators’ that Flowed across my Path—several times or more. Small can add up to Large enough for a Win.
Trump best not waste his second chance…
I took comfort in these words, part of a comment at Ace on election eve, “millions are praying”.
“God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said referring to the assassination attempts on his life.
Said in his victory speech.
My son just sent me this….well said.
https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1854094491528917431?s=01
Thank you, Americans.
Sharon+W, I and my family certainly prayed for your country, and ours.
It’s an historic day for many reasons. We have the second person to win the presidency non-consecutively (the other being Glover Cleveland). That’s a feet that was widely believed to be near impossible in modern times for various reasons.
We now have a winner who was ceaselessly prosecuted unjustly for a decade via lawfare, who was the subject of various ‘ops’ and general skulduggery by our Government’s intelligence apparatus, an extremely hostile press who shamelessly lied and misrepresented him and his supporters at every turn, an opponent outraised him by an almost 3 to 1 margin, and (last but certainly not least) survived 2 assasination attempts.
In short, the forces arrayed against him have pretty much thrown everything at him that they could, used every available weapon that they had. And yet despite all that, he has still prevailed.
Beyond everything else, I do wonder if there will be any real reflection by the mainstream media. Will there be any honest attempt to evaluate their failings and irrational demonizations? Will they see the problem with being blatant propagandists in an age of post information scarcity? My initial guess is probably not, but the alternative for them is irrelevance and ultimately unemployment, so perhaps they have a surivival instinct still that will force them to face some hard realities.
Are you ready for a guilty pleasure?
Instapundit linked to this fake video of Biden congratulating Trump on the win, and I couldn’t resist a look. It’s funny and crude, so if you laugh, don’t blame me.
Here’s a link: https://x.com/MidnightMitch/status/1854048817076634069
@ Infidel753
Looks like your forecast of a “Blue Wave” was waaaaay off.
I did great on my forecast, and will be back in 4-years for more. Use mine next time, and you won’t even have to credit humble me…
Laugh of the morning was an essay by Michael Hirsh in Foreign Policy magazine (foreignpolicy.com)
A sample, Kamala was done wrong by Sunny Hostin of “The View” who asked Kamala an easy question.
Oh, the humanity!
I got on their spam list and generally delete on receipt but this one showed the gulf separating the elites and reality.
Well, it looks like former President Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral college decisively, and by large enough margins that it will be very hard for the Democrats to mount all sorts of legal challenges to those numbers and results in each state, or to the Electoral college totals.
Hopefully, the sudden and mysterious appearance, from out of nowhere, of hundreds of thousands of new votes, shifting the victory to Harris, in state after state, is not likely to work this time.
However, I fully expect that the Democrats will put every road block they can in the way of, first, Trump peacefully ascending to the presidency and, then, once in office, placing every other roadblock they can to thwart his attempts to govern and implement his Agenda.
The first thing which comes to mind is the fact that, as the Vice President, Kamala Harris has the Constitutional function and duty of certifying the election results.
Despite the huge controversy the Democrats made of their version of the events surrounding the certification of the election last time, on “January 6th,” and the need for the Constitutional process to proceed along it’s normal course, I can certainly see Harris refusing to certify.
There are many important and decisive actions which President Trump needs to take on his first few days in office, but perhaps none is more important or foundational than quickly getting legislation passed by Congress and signed which will completely reform the Civil Service, one of the chief sources of resistance to Trump’s Agenda last time, and –if he lets them keep their power to do so–sure to play the same role this time.
P.S.–That accomplished, it’s time for a thorough house cleaning of the Executive Branch, to include, among other major targets, the DOJ, the FBI, State Department, the Military, and Intelligence Agencies, with other Executive Agencies and Departments not far behind.
Where will Trump get the many fearless gun-slinging sheriffs he needs to send out to clean up each partisan and corrupt organization?
Next, will it be worth the expenditure of political capital to try to totally disband whole Departments or Agencies like Education, Environmental Protection, ATF, or the BLM?
This all assumes that Republicans will retain control of the House.
Commentators have been saying that the Republican party is now Trump’s party.
But, is that so?
If and when Trump embarks on a revolutionary Agenda to drastically reform the existing “System,” will Congressional Republicans give him the votes to do so?
How much drastic change is realistically possible?
Why did the counting stop?
Trump won and I’m alive. A good day. Gratitude.
Suggested agenda for Trump:
— Build the wall, deport them all
— Drill, baby drill
— Pardon Jan 6 protestors
— Purge DOJ/FBI, Dept. of State, CIA.
— Eliminate Dept. of Education and Homeland Security; FBI and CIA.
— Cancel/rescind Biden’s executive orders
— Purge the military leadership; reform the military
That’s just for starters. Any other suggestions?
Decent Joe was right: dey shoulda stuck wid ‘im. Not replaced ‘im wid da Cackler. After all, HE was da guy dat brought ‘em to da dance.
And holy moley! Just LOOK HOW POPULAR he was!!!!!
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/11/06/this-is-odd/
Yeah, I’m looking at YOU! Yeah, YOU! (You know who you are….)
Sean Davis:
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1854194705874952424
Chart at link.
And related, Zerohedge:
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1854144250562429081
Chart at link.
Where will Trump get the many fearless gun-slinging sheriffs he needs to send out to clean up each partisan and corrupt organization?
Ahem. I’m available and keen to serve.
His first agenda item should be to establish friend and foe in each agency. Get it on paper!
Second: he needs to stay safe!
He needs to hear from the women of great wealth–get an agreement on what two things they consider important for the next four years. Put their names out there connected to their invisible “actions”.
Assure there is not another pile up of shipping containers on our coasts.
Use some of the “qualities” that the progressives claim for themselves:
1. “we include everyone’s opinion”. He needs to do that before– not after a
decision–or at least look like he is doing it. He needs to use Congress to come up with solutions that
are reasonable–not to “pretty places”, but rather solutions to how each
state can handle their problem in a non draconian way.
2. Mostly what he needs to do is bring in strong systems thinkers who can
look at a problem and design doable solutions.
Not to be too much of a Debbie Downer, but there’s still the scumbag judge in NYC and the sentencing of Trump coming up. Will he actually throw Trump in jail?
The political situation in Washington has aptly been described as a “Swamp.”
Imagine a swamp, full of traps for the unwary—false trails, bogs and quicksand, hostile animals and insects, branches and vines to trip over.
That’s what any Trump appointees will be thrust into.
If it turns out I was wrong about “too big to rig”, I’m relieve, but a lot can happen between now and January.
For now it looks as though we have earned a breathing space. We cannot just use it to breathe. If we go back to sleep they’ll just take over again in 2028.
A lot of the Democrat NGOs who help the Dems win elections have been funded by bills passed by the Republican-controlled House, which has been following the spending parameters agreed to with Biden back in the McCarthy Speakership since May of this year and will spend us into a fake debt-ceiling fight by the middle of next year. We need to hold our GOP accountable to get its snouts out of the trough and start fixing things that are broken. New Senate Majority leader is a step in the right direction, provided that McConnell is not pulling the strings.
@physicsguy:Will he actually throw Trump in jail?
I hope the judge is stupid enough to do that.
I hope that for the next four years Trump is strapped to a gurney and wheeled into negotiations with foreign leaders in an orange jumpsuit, shackles, and a Hannibal Lecter mask, and kept in a glass cage for everyone else’s safety. I hope he gets some face tattoos while he’s in there.
I suspect the “trade deals” will get quite a bit more favorable, Mexico will start building a wall on its own side of the border, and Putin might cede some territory back to Ukraine or maybe even Finland.
Dear Neo: Is there any way the Jewish community can try to get this guy to tamp down some of the rhetoric he is already spitting out? This guy is a beloved leader of the extreme left an economist from Berkeley. He has tremendous influence among the “enlightened” and I fear his rhetoric is too too evil. I don’t ask that he be silenced–just that he should not TRY to incite riots.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/06/election-trump-president-resistance-america
I think the reason Harris is waiting to concede today is to give her minions in Philly, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Phoenix/Tuscon, Milwaukee, and Las Vegas time to test dumping in some ballots out of nowhere. Trump is only ahead in Wisconsin by 30K votes, and counting is still going on in Nevada and Arizona. If they can get Trump’s margins down in Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin to 20K by this evening, I don’t think she will concede.
If they can get the margins down to 20K they can start filing more court cases asking for late ballots to count in all of the states.
“I did great on my forecast”
Yes, Karmi was predicting a big Trump-led Republican sweep all along …
The Trump administration has an opportunity to discover the truth that has been hidden, and the lies that were propagated, by the Democrats for the last sixteen years . . . assuming that the Democrats don’t destroy all the evidence.
Likening your political opponent to one of the worst mass murderers in history [without evidence], and calling more than half of the voters “garbage” (and then lying about it) were not winning strategies, thank God!
The NYT front page is hilarious, though also kind of pathetic:
TRUMP STORMS BACK
Stunning Return to Power after Dark and Defiant Campaign
Well he is Hitler, so I suppose it’s appropriate.
Sharon+W, that CNN segment was fascinating, not for what he said. There’s nothing new to any person outside the bubble. But the looks on the faces of the other panelists – they look like they can’t believe their ears, like the things he was saying just don’t compute.
Thanks for that.
VDH wrote a piece a couple of days ago, same theme.
https://victorhanson.com/from-clingers-to-garbage-why-the-16-years-of-vilification/
This Is the End: Harris, Biden Ready to Call Trump and Concede
Michigan was just called for President Trump. Given that Pennsylvania went to Trump, it’s likely Arizona and Nevada will also end up voting for Trump- giving him over 305 electoral votes. Winning the popular vote– that’s a mandate.
Trump made it perfectly clear on these issues:
He would settle the war between Ukraine and Russia.
He would impose tariffs, possibly across the board, but certainly in cases where the other country was obstructing trade.
He would increase energy production– oil and gas.
He would seal the border and begin deportation of illegal migrants.
He would incentivize manufacturing to relocate/locate in the US with 15% corporate tax.
He would reduce the size and scope of the federal government.
Knowing that, a majority of Americans voted for President Trump. Hopefully Congress will remember that when the President takes the office on Jan. 20
It appears the “protect the vote” plan led by Lara Trump has worked.
That the election was as close as it was, is a travesty. The least qualified candidate in modern times in Kamala. We dodged a bullet. And the hand of Providence can be seen in it all.
But this is only the beginning. Trump will be met with tenacious opposition at every turn. He will meet the challenges and do the work. On that we can rely. But we must back him up in any way possible. Write your Senators and representative, write letters to the editors, comment on blogs, volunteer to work for your local Republican party, etc. Defending democracy is hard work, but necessary. Let us all keep going with strong hearts filled with thanks for this amazing victory.
“Dear Neo: Is there any way the Jewish community can try to get this guy to tamp down some of the rhetoric he is already spitting out?”
Anne: I’m not aware that he’s especially beloved or influential, but maybe in his own circles he is. I doubt he pays any attention to the Jewish community. And incidentally he’s not an economist by training, he just pretends to be. He got an MA at Oxford in “Politics, Philosophy, and Economics” which in the UK is just a credential to go into government. Then he got a JD.
Paolo–I still remember how you and your parish prayed for my husband in April 2020. It is not an exaggeration to say that thousands (strangers to us) were praying for him. I still regularly pray, “Lord please bless every single person who had said even one prayer for us in our time of distress.” You are regularly remembered in our prayers.
J.J.
Yes indeed – a most *EXCELLENT* Job by Lara Trump!!!
Trump needs to get his cabinet set up asap, establish the committee that Musk and others will work on to reduce duplication and waste, get the EOs prepped for reversing the Biden’s EOs.
Get with the House and Senate leaders to get them to start the review of what regs, laws, etc that they can reverse, especially the ones that the Ds will try to push through before January.
BTW, the cabinet heads must agree that they will cooperate with Musk to reduce regs, wasteful and duplicate programs, and realign the departments with the original purpose.
With the illegal aliens in the country, start with the criminals and either deport them or jail them for a long time. That way, they won’t try to return to the US. I’m sure there are some unused federal buildings that can be converted to prisons. Perhaps take over Rikers since it is already a hell hole of a place. Jail them all in that sanctuary city.
The election went as well as I could reasonably hope. I agree that it is a great boon that Trump has also won the popular vote.
Thank God.
It does seem a classic story from the Bible or Roman times.
It ain’t over till the Cackler conceeds?
Will we have the Pink Hat March on the Mall, Part Duex in February 2025?
Kamala Harris finally concedes election to Donald Trump hours after his sweeping win
Thanks Jimmy: I am grateful for your insight and I hope you understand my very deep concern about this tactic coming on the morning after. We should ask whoever we think can help to help tap down the hate.
Vice President Kamala Harris asked Trump to concede, according to FNCs Peter Doocy, as reported at Just The News. (Presumably, this happened last night — the brief post doesn’t tell us, but we also know that Kamala has finally called Trump to concede since.) https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/harris-has-called-trump-concede-election-report
One online voice has compiled a list of mostly Hollywood celebrities who’ve declared they will leave the US: “1. Alec Baldwin 2. Whoopi Goldberg 3. John Legend 4. Chrissy Teigen 5. Rob Reiner 6. Barbara Streisand 7. Cher 8. Nancy Pelosi 9. Hillary Clinton 10. Megan Rapinoe 11. Tom Hanks 12. Amy Schumer 13. AOC 14. Lady Gaga 15. Taylor Swift 16. Bill Gates 17. Jane Fonda 18. Madonna 19. Mark Ruffalo 20. Kim Kardashian 21. Bruce Springsteen 22. George Clooney 23. Hunter Biden 24. Oprah 25. Robert De Niro 26. Samuel L Jackson 27. Miley Cyrus 28. Travis Kelce 29. Bobbi Althoff 30. Rashida Talib 31. Stormy Daniels 32. Dr. Anthony Fauci 33. George Soros 34. Diddy 35. Eminem 36. Ellen DeGeneres 37. Sean Penn 38. Sharon Stone 39. Ashley Judd 40. Tommy Lee 41. Bryan Cranston 42. Billie Joe Armstrong
“Bonus Cher will blow her brains out Rob Reiner will set himself on fire Bono vows to drive his car off a cliff”. LOL!
Beowulf9 at https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4276254/posts
Click through his or her link there to X.com for over a year and a half of thoughtful and proactive postings that may also make you laugh!
Anne, I agree it’s disgraceful, but not surprising. Unfortunately there will be riots and violence, regardless of what the guy with the Napoleon complex says. But maybe less given the gains in Trump’s support among blacks and Hispanics.
Even worse is what Jamie Raskin has been saying. I really hope the Rs keep the House to help stifle all of this.
Liz @ 1:29pm,
Well stated. And don’t forget Ramaswamy. He can be a big help with a plan for reducing spending and waste.
Vance can also be much more than a titular czar with his many talents. Maybe he focuses on fentanyl and addiction?
Musk Pledges ‘Hardcore’ Govt Reform in Trump Admin
Second chance President Trump – Can the Tiger change its Stripes?
Can a troll stop ….
Daily Mail is sweeping the field with reaction videos.
There is a lot of duplication in the “below the fold” parts, but it’s useful for people who aren’t political junkies. The writers still slip in some subtle-to-obvious anti-Trump spin, but are often called on it in the comments.
Pick your favorite pundit and enjoy!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14048773/joe-rogan-react-donald-trump-victory-election-podcast-young-voters.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-14048879/dave-portnoy-kamala-harris-donald-trump-election.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14048643/CNN-panel-stunned-Republican-pundit-Scott-Jennings-Trump-election.html
Not that anyone cares about Dubya’s endorsement or vote, but I point out a paragraph that represents the process by which I realized a great realignment was in process (h/t John Solomon’s post on the D-exit linked yesterday by Barry).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14049831/George-Bush-breaks-silence-election-refusing-reveal-voting-for.html
‘I also thank President Biden and Vice President Harris for their service to our country.’
That any Republican could call what Biden Inc. did to our country over the last 4 years a “service,” whether he meant it or was just being polite, is a travesty of misjudgment and arrogance bordering on farce.
My process of enlightenment:
First the Republican Never-Trumpers declared they couldn’t support Trump because of his crudity and lack of moral character, and would not endorse or vote for him; and that’s okay, they had some points in 2016.
Then some of them said that they were going to vote for Hillary Clinton; and that’s okay, it’s their right, if they thought she would implement policies they could agree with (although I thought they should be honest and just change parties).
Then some of them praised Hillary as being a morally better person than Trump; and that’s ridiculous.
So then Trump didn’t do any of the evil fascist things they predicted, and actually accomplished a lot of conservative priorities that the Republicans had long campaigned on.
BUT (given that I agree with all of Neo’s assessments of Joe Biden over the years)
The same people followed the same process in 2020, and even added to their numbers, some even characterizing Biden as a good man, a fine person, an astute statesmen, etc. (ignoring Hunter’s problems as “irrelevant” I suppose).
And that’s bizarre — I began to wonder if they had lived though an alternate time line or in an alternate DC somehow.
THEN in 2024 the defections of high-profile Republicans to the Democrats in support of Kamala Harris began, and they not only praised her character but her policies (aka Biden 2.0, or Obama 4.0 take your pick).
And that is deranged.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trumps-improbable-comeback-also-engineered-d-exit-significant
Note how the “party of joy and love” reacts when someone steps off the path.
(NOTE: I didn’t know Chris was Arnie’s son-in-law!)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14049335/chris-pratt-shock-brutal-response-election-maria-shriver-arnold-schwarzenegger.html
On the other hand, Andy is wrong about Harris (that’s his privilege), but relatively gracious in defeat — so not typical of the Democrats we are seeing more of in the news.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14049887/andy-cohen-kamala-harris-reaction-donald-trump-election.html
@ physicsguy > “Not to be too much of a Debbie Downer, but there’s still the scumbag judge in NYC and the sentencing of Trump coming up. Will he actually throw Trump in jail?”
Probably not.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14050341/trump-criminal-cases-closed-jack-smith-white-house.html
However, if I were writing the movie script, I would follow the scenario from
Niketas Choniates on November 6, 2024 at 12:04 pm >
“I hope the judge is stupid enough to do that.
I hope that for the next four years Trump is strapped to a gurney and wheeled into negotiations with foreign leaders in an orange jumpsuit, shackles, and a Hannibal Lecter mask, and kept in a glass cage for everyone else’s safety. I hope he gets some face tattoos while he’s in there.”
Some great theater in that vision!
AesopFan:
It has been an interesting sorting-out process, balanced by people like Gabbard and RFK and Musk and Joe Rogan and Megyn Kelly crossing over to the Trump side.
In re the Democrats’ harping on the comedian who called Puerto Rico a “great floating island of garbage” — which is an apt description of the pollution covering its beaches, according to one PR on the internet, the Outrage Club in DC ought to talk more to the people who live there.
https://justthenews.com/world/latin-america/trump-ally-elected-governor-puerto-rico
Just think of the righteous outrage the media et al. would have spewed had that comedian (or Trump) said something along the lines of PR having beautiful, pristine beaches filled with beautiful women…
Why were so many polls so wrong?
Aside from being tweaked to support Harris, that is.
The Daily Mail reveals their secret, and it looks persuasive to me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14049725/poll-polling-trump-harris-james-johnson.html
Lots of moving parts, so RTWT, but some of it mirrors the missed indicators that Karmi noted: 1) Black male voters. 2) Hispanic voters.
And a lot more than those.
I think they took the Salena Zito Maxim literally AND seriously.
Daily Mail’s polling still didn’t predict the Trump landslide.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/11/06/17/91767021-14049725-image-a-9_1730914813200.jpg
They had Trump 49% and Harris 46%.
At this time, with only Arizona still out, DDHQ has
Trump 52% and Harris 48% of the 140,207,792 votes tabulated so far.
Trump 301 EV 72,496,725 votes
Harris 226 EV 67,711,067 votes
https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/2024/General/President/
(Note: the counts changed slightly since I did my calculations; they are added to in real-time)
Arizona may have hoped to be some kind of tie-breaking king/queen-maker, but now they just look incompetent.
I have not yet seen any news of large-scale riots by the Left, maybe a couple of small Antifa actions.
IMO, the scale of Trump’s victory probably led the Junta to call off any planned violence, which would be in service to a “Trump lost the popular vote and he cheated” narrative that is simply unsustainable now.
They could get away with calling close votes illegitimate, as they certainly planned to do, but now they would be clearly declaring themselves Election Deniers.
And they can’t even claim Trump cheated without admitting that the “fair and secure” systems they touted four years ago really aren’t.
“If It’s Not Close They Can’t Cheat (enough)” really is true!
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/all-eyes-polls-election-irregularities-anticipated-occur-election-day
Another one of the first actions by President Trump might be to pardon all of those many people reportedly wrongfully persecuted, prosecuted, and jailed–apparently some of them reportedly still in jail–for their involvement in, or apparently just walking by, the action on Capitol Hill on “January 6th.”
Then, everyone involved in any aspect of their wrongful prosecution, and jailing–including any judicial or jail personnel who might have created the reportedly horrible conditions in which people were jailed and mistreated–should themselves be investigated, indicted, and prosecuted.
This brings up the question of just how much attention and effort should be devoted to investigating and prosecuting the many officials/people involved in all sorts of misdeeds during the Biden Administration and, at what point would such efforts be taking too much time and attention away from all of the other things which a Trump Administration very apparently urgently needs to accomplish?
I have not yet seen any news of large-scale riots by the Left, maybe a couple of small Antifa actions.
Let’s see what happens on January 20th. Though as mentioned, with Trump gaining among blacks and Hispanics, and winning the popular vote by a sizable amount, I suspect it won’t reach the height (or I should say, depth) of 2017.
RE: Illegal immigration
I’m all in favor of reasonable amounts of legal immigration which our country can easily assimilate, especially by immigrants who have education, skills, knowledge, and talents which will be of benefit to our country.
Criminal illegal aliens are the obvious first group of illegals which should be identified, rounded up, and deported.
But, I’m also hoping that a lot of other non-criminal “illegals,” in view of President elect Trump’s promised massive deportation effort, will decide to “self-deport” ; packing up their bags, and heading back across our borders, to find some other place to live.
I have not yet seen any news of large-scale riots by the Left…
AesopFan:
Perhaps wishful thinking, but I don’t think there will be.
The big post-2016 woke upsurge is played out, the Dems couldn’t do better than Biden, then swapped him out for the feckless Harris, who crashed, burned and even lost the popular vote to the Anti-Christ Trump, who chewed up the lawfare and hysterical lies and won, with even more blacks and hispanics than ever before.
I think the left is confused and regrouping. Which isn’t to say they will triangulate back to the center. But the American majority has rejected Harris and all her Hollywood surrogates. Democracy has spoken.
For now they can no longer bank on being on the Right Side of History. Woke is broke as an old acid-rock poster. (Unless it’s collectible.)
P.S.–Who knows what kinds of very attractive benefits–free transportation, food, clothing, medical care, education, and housing, living allowances, and other free stuff–the Biden Administration, various NGOs, and Church groups have, de facto, provided to illegals.
The Trump Administration should make every effort to eliminate these benefits, which make it attractive for illegals to cross into our country and try to reside here.
I wonder if Barack and Michelle aren’t kicking themselves.
If they had forced out Biden before the primaries then entered Michelle O, I still say MO would have won this year.
A plank of wood like Kamala got 48% against Trump.
Yes, yes, I know Michelle O didn’t want to run. It would have been a drag. But if she really cared about America or the Revolution or whatever, wouldn’t it have been worth it?
What is Barack’s legacy now?
My wife just came home from the store all freaked out because she encountered a large Mountain Lion on the road to our house.
And ….. Arizona gives up and goes Red as of Nov 6, 2024, 9:29 PM
Total votes tabulated at DDHQ 141,175,272
Harris 226 EV 68,269,544 votes 48%
Trump 312 EV 72,905,728 votes 52%
My wife just came home from the store all freaked out because she encountered a large Mountain Lion on the road to our house.
Chases Eagles:
Totally cool.
I mean that in the best possible way.
@ huxley > “What is Barack’s legacy now?”
Same as it would have been if Michelle had won: death, destruction, poverty, censorship, curtailing constitutional rights, enabling Iran, destroying Israel.
She would have done the same thing for 4 years as either Biden or Harris, and the rsurge from the Right would just be delayed, and otherwise the same.
The Obamas have no cachet with younger voters, and their brand of nagging parental bullying wouldn’t get any better.
(and yes, Kamala revealing the Democrats’ “floor” is frightening).
Niketas Choniates on November 6, 2024 at 12:01 pm said:
“If it turns out I was wrong about “too big to rig”, I’m relieved, but a lot can happen between now and January.”
You are not really beating yourself up over that stance, but you provided a good balancing service for us.
Given how many of us felt (or thought we “knew”) about probable fraud in 2020, your continued cautionary reminders about a possible repeat for 2024 were a good splash of cold water in the face, now and then. We had no grounds for feeling cocky up until just the last few weeks, when Cackler was clearly not cutting it. Dispite her failings, the issues of abortion and of “first women president” might just have been enough to pull her across the finish line.
“Might have”; but fortunately not enough.
It will be a glorious day when the whole odious Biden Administration crew gets stripped of their positions, and some perhaps prosecuted.
Re: What is Barack’s legacy now?
AesopFan:
I was thinking four more years of an Obama administration would do a great deal more structural damage — eliminating the Electoral College and filibuster, packing the Supreme Court, adding more states, awarding citizenship to illegals, more lawfare against Republicans — thereby cementing the Democrat Party’s power for decades more.
Elon Musk claimed if Trump lost this year, it would be the last free election in the US. It seems possible.
Trump’s win means we’re going to rollback that agenda.
@IrishOtter (11/6, 1121)– Additional changes: Eliminate birthright citizenship by restricting it to persons born of parents legally residing in the US at the time of birth, that being US citizens (natural born, naturalized, or “green card). No more “anchor babies”.
[Apologies if this was mentioned upstream, there were 70 comments ahead of me.]
I have neve really understood why we use the general term “natural born” when we really mean “native born”. But this might be not quite correct for those few people born of US citizen parents while the mother is not resident in the US, e.g., John McCain in Panama, etc.
Thanks, Neo, for all your hours of work. The Flag was great.
And the noises, kids, horses (coconuts?), motorcycles.
Long may she wave.